Pastors' Blog

How Long, O Lord?

My friend is at home in bed, dying of cancer. Why does God let it go on so long?

Persecution and Comfort

Which is a bigger threat to your Christian faith: persecution or comfort?

ELS mission work in Peru

This is a short, 5-minute video about our ELS mission work in the national church in Peru.

Part of the Journey Is the End

NO SPOILERS, I haven’t seen the movie yet. It’s safe to read this blog post.

The first trailer for Avengers: Endgame was released months ago and featured a narration by Iron Man in which he says, “Part of the journey is the end.” Part of the journey is the end—except in comic books.

Now Trending, #easter

Google doesn’t acknowledge Easter. Or at least the Google doodle doesn’t.

For the past 18 years, the “doodle” logo atop Google’s home page – which is cleverly altered to recognize a person or holiday — has been empty of any visual reference to the empty tomb of Christ. The irony is delightful.

Notre-Dame burning

We witnessed the tragic burning of Notre-Dame in Paris this week. Its construction was begun 859 years ago and took 100 years to complete.

Avengers: Infinity War

The new Avengers movie will be released soon, at the end of April. It will be part two of “Avengers: Infinity War” released last year. The villain of the movies is Thanos (the word for ‘Death’ in Greek). In last year’s movie …

In China, new religious laws have made it a lot harder for Christians to gather. There is now a list of nine Chinese government rules that are being strictly enforced for all registered, legal churches.

Many Christians use the word ‘blessed.’ But as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride said, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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